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California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For 93-Year-Old’s Hospital Death Settled

August 24, 2016

A California medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit for the death of a 93-year-old hospital patient who died as a result of alleged medical negligence while in the hospital has been settled for an undisclosed amount. The elderly woman’s family had reported the incident to the California De[...]

Kentucky Jury Awards $21.2M For Unnecessary Cardiac Procedure

August 21, 2016

A Kentucky medical malpractice jury awarded a local man $21.25 million in compensatory and punitive damages on August 10, 2016 against a local hospital and its owner for allegedly allowing an unnecessary cardiac procedure to be performed on him. The jury found that the defendant hospital and its p[...]

$6.8M Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital For Patient’s Blindness

August 20, 2016

A Texas medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the 50-year-old plaintiff in the amount of $6,844,543 to compensate him for his total blindness that he developed over the course of two days while in the hospital following his heart surgery. The jury’s award of $1.7 million fo[...]

Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Fired Heart Surgeon

August 19, 2016

On August 12, 2016, a wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in Wisconsin against a hospital and its former heart surgeon, alleging that the heart surgeon’s medical negligence during open heart surgery led to a patient’s wrongful death shortly after his surgery. The defenda[...]

$16M Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hospital’s Misleading Natural Birth Program Marketing

August 14, 2016

On August 5, 2016, an Alabama medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a woman who had undergone natural childbirth at the defendant hospital but suffered serious injuries during labor and delivery. The Alabama medical malpractice jury took about ten hours to deliberate after a two-[...]

Maryland Hospital’s NICU Temporary Closed Due To 3 Babies With Serious Bacterium, 2 NICU Deaths Last Week

August 10, 2016

A Maryland hospital’s NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) has been temporarily closed, and nine babies in the NICU have been transferred to other hospitals, after the bacterium Pseudomonas was found in a water pipe that provides water to the NICU. The water was tested following the deaths of t[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Discusses Ostensible Agency In Medical Malpractice Case

July 30, 2016

In an unreported decision, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) discussed ostensible agency in a medical malpractice case where the plaintiff was attempting to hold a hospital responsible for the alleged medical negligence of a gastroenterologist who had perforate[...]

New Jersey Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Twin’s Birth Injury, Death

July 24, 2016

The Pennsylvania parents of twins who were born at a New Jersey hospital have recently filed a New Jersey medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital where the birth took place as well as numerous physicians and four nurses who were involved with the delivery that occurred on A[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Pediatrician’s Negligence Led To Child’s Vegetative State

July 18, 2016

A West Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit filed by the parents of a 7-year-old child who is in a permanent vegetative state alleges that the defendant pediatrician’s medical negligence on numerous occasions in failing to timely and properly diagnose the child’s true medical condition l[...]

New York Hospital Negligence Lawsuit Alleges Patient Needlessly Lost His Leg

July 16, 2016

A New York medical negligence lawsuit that was recently filed in the federal court in Brooklyn against a local hospital alleges that a series of unnecessary and unreasonable delays in treating a man who arrived in the emergency department after having been struck by a car and suffering a serious leg[...]

Kansas Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleges Pathologist Misdiagnosed Cancer, Leading To Removal Of Healthy Organ

July 14, 2016

A physician employed at a Kansas hospital filed a whistleblower lawsuit on July 1, 2016 against his hospital, alleging that the head of the hospital’s pathology department misread a tissue slide as showing cancer that resulted in the patient having a healthy essential organ surgically removed.[...]

$53M Chicago Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury

July 12, 2016

On June 29, 2016, a 12-person Chicago medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $53 million for the severe and permanent brain injury resulting in cerebral palsy suffered by a newborn who was delivered at the University of Chicago Medical Center in 200[...]

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